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| Tanzanian lawmakers arrested at funeral Agence France Presse May 25th, 2011 Tanzanian police said Wednesday they had arrested two lawmakers from the main opposition party Chadema while they attended the funeral of the villagers killed in clashes at a gold mine. |
| MPs, journalits in court over North Mara dispute Daily News (Tanzania) May 24th, 2011 SINGIDA East Member of Parliament Tundu Antipas Lissu (Chadema) along with seven other people on Tuesday appeared before Tarime District Court in Mara Region, charged with instigating people to cause violence. |
| Families accuse police of stealing bodies of Tanzanians killed at Canadian mine by Jocelyn Edwards, The Toronto Star May 24th, 2011 Police stormed the mortuary late Monday night and forcibly removed bodies belonging to four of the five men shot, witnesses said. The fifth body, which relatives allege was mistreated, had already been buried and was not in the mortuary. |
| Mara gunshot victims set to be laid to rest by Beldina Nyakeke , The Citizen (Tanzania) May 23rd, 2011 Mr Lissu said that the aim of the post-mortem was to identify exactly which parts of the bodies of the deceased were shot by the Police. He explained that people knew that the deaths were caused by bullets but didn�t know which parts of the bodies were affected by the bullets. He said the examination would help them to find out if they were killed accidentally or police intended to kill them. |
| Memorial for dead banned at Canadian gold mine in Africa by Jocelyn Edwards, The Toronto Star May 23rd, 2011 Families of the five men killed by security forces of a Canadian mine are furious after that were denied permission to hold a memorial service Tuesday at African Barrick�s gold mine in North Mara. |
| Tarime killings: The inside story by George Marato, the Guardian (Tanzania) May 22nd, 2011 Breach of trust within the unholy trinity comprising the police, company staff and youngsters pinning their livelihood on proceeds from the sale of gold concentrates, has emerged as the source of the high tension between North Mara Gold Mine and the neighbouring Nyamongo locality. |
| Controlling the damage to gold mining�s gritty image by Lisa Wright, The Star May 21st, 2011 Two words instantly come to mind in cynical business circles when a tragedy occurs under a big company�s watch: damage control. |
| Angry Nyamongo villagers attack MP the Guardian (Tanzania) May 19th, 2011 Angry Nyamongo villagers yesterday pelted the Tarime Member of Parliament, Nyambari Nyangwine (CCM) and journalists with stones near North Mara Gold mine, the scene of bloody clashes earlier this week. |
 | Black eye for Barrick taints Canada, critic says by Lisa Wright, Business reporter, The Star May 19th, 2011 Barrick Gold Corp. has tainted Canada�s international mining image, say industry observers, as police and company officials investigate why seven people were killed at the gold giant�s troubled Tanzanian mine. |
| Angry Nyamongo villagers attack MP The Guardian (Tanzania) May 19th, 2011 Angry Nyamongo villagers yesterday pelted the Tarime Member of Parliament, Nyambari Nyangwine (CCM) and journalists with stones near North Mara Gold mine, the scene of bloody clashes earlier this week. |
 | Social Conflict leaves seven dead at the hands of Barrick security in Tanzania May 19th, 2011 Confrontations between local people and mining security are not uncommon near Barrick's North Mara mine in Tanzania. As Bloomberg journalist Cam Simpson reported in his feature story about the mine, "Security guards and federal police allegedly have shot and killed people scavenging the gold-laced rocks to sell for small amounts of cash, according to interviews with 28 people, including victims� relatives, witnesses, local officials and human-rights workers." These conflicts take place in the context of forced displacement, destroyed livelihoods and farmlands, and the on-going poisoning of local residents that characterizes Barrick's North Mara mine. |
| North Mara�s message to government by Beldina Nyakeke , The Citizen (Tanzania) May 17th, 2011 Relatives of people who were shot dead by police at Barrick North Mara gold mine have refused to take their bodies for burial until the government assures them on its plans to end calamities of that nature once and for all. Speaking here yesterday, they said that they were tired of the recurrence of such incidents in which their relatives have been losing their lives. |
| FP: Seven �intruders� killed at African Barrick mine by Peter Koven, Financial Post May 17th, 2011 When Barrick Gold Corp. spun its African properties into a new company last year, investors knew they were being sold high-risk assets that had their share of problems. But they didn�t imagine this. |
| Landmark decision gives miners exclusive land rights in Papua New Guinea Post Courier A SENIOR lawyer has predicted that a recent landmark decision of the National Court giving Porgera Joint Venture Company exclusive rights of occupancy to its Special Mining Lease will affect thousands of landowners living in major resource development project areas throughout the country. |
 | Tanzania: Killings and Toxic Spill Tarnish Barrick Gold by Zahra Moloo, Toward Freedom The Thigithe River in North Mara, Tanzania meanders through scattered villages and clumps of trees in a vast expanse of land ringed by hills close to the Kenyan border. Nearby, an enormous, sprawling mound of rocks and stones several meters high reaches up from the earth. This is the region's notorious gold mine, operated by African Barrick Gold, a subsidiary of the Toronto-based Barrick Gold Corporation. The mine has a reserve of an estimated 2.95 million ounces of gold. |
| IMPACTED COMMUNITIES SPEAKING TOUR May 7th, 2011 It is shareholder's season once again, and for mining-impacted communities all over the world that means it is time to confront their corporate at these companies' annual general meetings. It also means that impacted communities are converging in Canada to share their truth and make alliances to help them hold these corporations accountable! |
| Act on abuses, Papua New Guinea activists plea by BJ Siekierski, iPolitics.ca A pair of Papua New Guinean activists are in Ottawa for a fourth time hoping a recent report will help them succeed where earlier pleas have failed. |
| Tribesmen ask Canada to force changes at PNG mine AFP OTTAWA � Two members of the Ilipi tribe of Porgera in the Papua New Guinea highlands on Thursday appealed to Canada to clamp down on abuses of mining companies abroad. |
| MEDIA RELEASE: Indigenous Papua New Guinea Leaders Protest Ongoing Abuses at Barrick�s Porgera Mine Ottawa, May 5, 2011- For the fourth year in a row, Indigenous Ipili leaders from Porgera in Papua New Guinea (PNG) are in Canada to protest ongoing severe environmental impacts and human rights abuses associated with Barrick�s Porgera mine. |
| Informe narrativo: Manifestaci�n contra reuni�n de accionistas de la Barrick, movilizando en apoyo a comunidades afectadas El equipo ProtestBarrick.net est� actualmente en Toronto, Canad�, para la reuni�n anual general de la Barrick Gold y nuestra quinta gira con comunidades afectadas. Este a�o participan representantes de comunidades de Papua Nueva Guinea, y esperamos (si logren sus visas) que se sumar�n desde Tanzania y las Filipinas tambi�n. |
